Check out the 'Capris' on that girl...

With Mitchell in the 'inchworm/Commando crawling' stage, the house is actually getting crazier than it already was! AAGGHHHH! Most of the time, I LOVE it, btw...
Three times in the last two weeks, Mitchell has 'crawled' out of his pants...one minute he's scooching around the living room floor fully dressed and the next, voila!, he's left his pants a few feet behind him. It doesn't really matter to me if he's dressed or not, so I leave him for a few minutes...
Enter Ainsley. She spends LOTS of time lately naked from waist down as she's working hard on potty training (and, apparently, just loves not having clothes on!).
So, one afternoon late last week and Mitchell had crawled out of his pants. Ainsley said something about, "Mitchell's pants of fwoor. Silly Mitchell. Me put them on?" I thought she was going to put them back on Mitchell and I was cooking dinner or something (can you say Facebook-ing, probably?). Not really paying attention, I said, "Um-hum...sure, Ainsley. Just be careful with Mitchell's legs, ok?".
No answer for 10 seconds, then a giggle. I turn around to see what she's destroyed:

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA! She's such a little stinker! Look at that face. Mitchell's little 6-9month sized pants actually look pretty cute on her... and, we spend LOTS of time outside, I promise... the pale-ness is just a way of life for Moseleys!

She did it again today and when a friend stopped over, she was a little concerned about the CLEARLY too small pants on Ainsley...who thought she was so cute in 3-6 month sized sweat pants.

Few quick posts...

My younger brother gave me the idea MONTHS ago to try to post shorter updates on here. It's a great idea, but I never remember to get to that until, all of a sudden, I have a million things to share...but, I'll work on it.

Here's the first:
We've been passing some little virus/cold around for about a week. Mitchell had it the worst, but the kids have all been a bit yucky. The other day we spent an entire 2 hours just coloring at the kitchen table. Elise was so pitiful and Ainsley was extra grumpy, but they were both happy with the new coloring books and colored pencils. yay. Elise colored a picture specifically for Nana (it's in the mailbox TODAY!). She colored a second picture REALLY WELL. Sometimes she gets so distracted that she just scribbles on it and then runs off, but this was a lot of focused coloring. The next few seconds went like this:

Me:Elise, what a GREAT job you did coloring that picture!
Elise:I know, I worked REALLY hard on it.
Me:Who should we send it to? It needs to be someone very special to you since you colored it so well (thinking for sure it would go to her best buddy in SC or to Mitchell- the top recipients of her creations these days.)
Elise: that's a tough choice. I want to send it to God. He's very special to me.
Me: (tearing up a little) Ok, let's put it in an envelope and send it to God.
Elise: I'm sure the mailman can get it to God, the mailman knows where everyone lives.

Love it.

like a vacation in my own house...

I'm fully aware that almost nobody really cares about someone else's decorating and/or renovation projects. Almost nobody. This is for those four people who do care...and just for me because I worked hard (with help from Adam's mom!!) to make this room 'OURS' and start to really feel like I'm creating a HOME in this new house. There are TONS of projects to be done around here (fun things like a major kitchen remodel in several years and not-so-fun things like a new backyard fence, work on the driveway, and LOADS of painting...), but I started with a living room re-paint and decorate. Here are pictures from when we first viewed the house- so it's not our stuff in it here...


We moved in a month ago and the color on the walls was FINE. It was this nice soft green (and I love green on walls!), but once our stuff was in...it was so blah...boring...monotone...

Side note: We're not big TV people. But we LOVE abc's "Modern Family"...so, so, so, so funny! For months, I'd told Adam "I LOVE the color on the walls in Phil's house"...with the black and white accents and the super crisp blue color." That color is a stretch for me, but it's just a few cans of paint, right? I even off-handedly mentioned it to the ladies in my bible study at church. Several of them laughed and said, "oohh, that IS a great color." The next week I got an email from one of them, saying "get this!...there's an article in People magazine this week and it mentioned the wall color from that show. " Woo-hoo. That's all I needed to motivate me. Thanks for the email, Haley!

Adam's mom was here two weeks ago (yep, so far behind on blogs that I haven't even put up those pics yet...sorry, Muriel!) and we busted our butts to get holes fixed up, furniture moved, TOTALLY painted -2 coats even though the Benjamin Moore person said, "should only need 1 coat..." when does paint EVER just need one coat?! Really....

We still have to hang a few things and I need to finish my curtain project, but IIIIIIIII LLOOOOOOOOOOVVVVVVEEEEEEEEE IIIIIIIIITTTTTT!!!!! The room is so calming and soothing. We have a strict "no kid stuff" rule for the room (b/c, THANKFULLY, we have a playroom that is floor to ceiling "kid") and it's sooooo lovely to come in here during naps or in the evening and feel like a totally normal person, not a crazy, frazzled mommy. It's heaven.
It looks a little 'smurf blue' in these pictures, but it's not that at all! It's a very cape-cod-ish blue that has serious grey undertones, especially in the evenings.
The curtain project was inspired by a blog I LOVE to follow and if you're a crafty, decorative, frugal type AT ALL, you need to check out "thriftydecorchick.blogspot.com". She's amzing. Anyway, the previous owner had left brand new white tab top curtains in the house, but they were 8 inches too short. No way was I going to buy new curtains when I had something that worked (relatively...) fine! So, although it took 3 trips to Joann fabrics, I found gorgeous material and a strip of grosgrain ribbon and 'customized' the curtains. I only have 2 of 4 done, but they're killer. =) I also despised the ceiling fan. It was this heinous 'faux marble' look of hunter green and white...gag. So, I bought some appliance paint in a matte black and just painted all the metal parts. It took about 20 minutes (2x) during naptimes and it's a whole 'new' light/fan! Yay for cheap fixes/recycling/elbow grease projects...=)
overall, I love the new room...it's exactly what I was hoping for! Now we just need to work on every.other.room.in.the.house. baby steps...

Re-living the old days...

So, Adam played tennis in high school. We've never really played together, but I think he was pretty good...just ask the flying insects in our yard!
When we moved into the new house (3 weeks ago), we quickly realized there's a HUGE problem with bees and wasps. The bees are gigantic, too. Not just little honey bees or whatever. They like to hover right around us and are DOZENS of them right outside our front and back doors...I guess they love the cedar siding of the house and the wooded areas around us (according to the neighbors!) and swarm this time of year. It makes it a little scary to try to eat out on the back deck or play with bubbles in the front yard.
Now back to the former tennis star...
Easter morning, Adam had a great idea to get out the old gear and show those bees who is in charge.
The first day he killed about 5, and we're killing about 1o each day!! It's getting easier...and fun!

I mean, look at that thing!
Now we're out with the racket EVERY DAY. Our new neighbors laughed at us a little the first day, but yesterday....FRANK next door had one, too. He yelled over "thanks for the great idea. This works better than any bee spray AND I'm working on my backhand!". Glad to see we're having a positive influence on our neighbors!!

Easter!

We had a great Easter weekend, enjoying an "Easter Party" at a local church with a neat puppet show, singing, egg hunt, face painting, etc...Elise had a GREAT time and Ainsley enjoyed it some, too. She was a bit whiny while we were there and I was getting a little frustrated with her attitude. I just wanted them to have fun, you know? When we got home and I discovered the 102 degree fever, I felt bad. She was mopey and clingy for the rest of the day (which I kind of enjoyed b/c she's NEVER a cuddler!), and was totally fine by mid-day Sunday. odd.
We had a few other things planned that night and Sunday, too. It was a fun weekend and we're super thankful for everything about Easter. Elise summed it up well on Sunday after church, "You know that it's really important when we wash our hands after we play? Well, it's MORE important that Jesus' blood washed our hearts. They were dirty, too, but Jesus makes them clean just like soap." Well said. I love it.

At the Easter party...look at Elise and Adam on this one:


Ok, this is 'better' of Ainsley, but not great of Elise...just pretend they were all happy at once!
Easter morning with new game "Hungry, Hungry Hippo". She loves it.


On our way to Church on Sunday. Ainsley stayed home sick with Nana, but these two looked adorable, so we got one cute picture.

Backyard fun...

The weather is almost perfect here in VA right now and we're LOVING the ability to be outside ALL THE TIME and get adjusted to the new house, neighborhood, etc... last Friday (yep, I'm behind on blogging again...), I threw play clothes on the girls after nap time and we headed out to the backyard to do some fingerpainting! It was fun, GORGEOUS, and very messy. They loved it, though, and were just hosed off at the end.
One thing that we especially love about the new house is our mountain view! You can see it a little in these pictures, just ignore the chain link fence, ok? We know it's hideous and tacky and we'll get rid of it soon...after we finish unpacking boxes, get fully settled, paint some rooms, replace some lighting, etc...it's on the list! just look past it to the beautiful mountains and greenery. Thanks.

Even Ainsley, who hates 'disorder', enjoyed the painting!

We all know that Elise LOVES to be dirty, messy, painty, whatever..

Much better....

Things improved drastically after I had my little pity-party the other day concerning the lost items, crummy weather, etc... and all is good now.
During naptime, I found the card reader (in the master bedroom closet!) and later that night, we found all the everyday dishes (in a box marked "everyday dishes"...not sure how it eluded me for 6 days!). I'd say about 95% of the boxes that are going to be unpacked are done at this point, so that's good. We still need to do all the decorating of walls, fix some little stuff, organize garage and basement, but I'm feeling pretty good about it all. =)
So, thanks for listening to me whine...here are some of the cute pics that I knew were on that memory card:

The day before the movers came, I asked Elise during her rest time to "pack up her stuff from her room and put it in some bags/boxes"...this is what I found 10 minutes later: I LOVE IT!

Ainsley was helping us decorate once we got in the new house. She kept saying "HEBBY", translated: "heavy"...she thought she was so cool to help out! And that second picture...ahhh ....we LOVE that smile!



Adam and Elise heading off to school one day last week. My favorite thing about this school is STILL the fact that Adam can take her in the mornings...=)

Last but not least...cutie pie Mitchell. He LOVES this little toy (Thanks, Kristina and Jean!!!) and will do his little inchbug-crawl to get all the way across the room to get to it.